Lu Yao felt like she’d been having a run of bad luck lately.
It was bad enough that her carefully prepared thesis got dismissed with, “Even a tumor has a head growing out of it.” Then, during the holidays, she went to help Grandma sell watermelons and ended up having a miserable time of it.
People deliberately underpaying, skipping out without paying, saying “Oops, I forgot my money, I’ll come back and bring it later,” or “We’re neighbors, after all” were one thing. But what was with someone driving off without paying 43 yuan in a luxury car?
Fine, go ahead and skip out. The watermelons had only been grown to keep the family busy. But you even said, “My phone’s in the car. I’ll take the watermelon back first, then come back and scan to pay.”
A gleaming black business sedan, with a flashy license plate. Lu Yao didn’t recognize the car, but she could tell it wasn’t cheap. She waved her little hand. “Sure.”
But the car sped off with one press of the accelerator, as if it had made up its mind, and never came back.
On the way home, Lu Yao did the math. They’d sold five watermelons that evening, and after adding and subtracting the sales: minus 3 yuan!
The license plate Jiang A 66688 filled an entire page of her diary, covered in XXXXXXXXXX.
With the new semester about to start, her advisor sent her a voice message: “You’re only useful at times like this! Keep it up! Do a good job.” Lu Yao was assigned to be an NPC at the school gate, holding a big flag and welcoming new students.
She was bored, picking at her fingers, when a black car pulled up right in front of her. She immediately pasted on a standard eight-tooth smile and knocked on the window. “Hello, you can’t park here...”
Hm? Jiang A 66688?
So you think you can just drive off? You even ran off over 43 yuan! Lu Yao had just rolled up her sleeves, ready to let him have it, when the rear door opened and a long leg stepped out...
Theme: When you can’t see the road ahead, please keep going a little longer.
